To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ✨ Simone Weil…

Simone Weil
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.70, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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