A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). Select…

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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