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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Author: Simone Weil

Humility is attentive patience.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.