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Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Contradiction (1947), p. 240
“The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”
Book Three, Chapter XI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
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