Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ✨ Simone We…

Simone Weil
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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