“We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.”

—  Simone Weil

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260

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French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909–1943

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