Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. Th…

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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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