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

Simone Weil · Imagination

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If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

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