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“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)