Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of his…

Simone Weil
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ✨ Simone Weil (1962). Selected Essays: 1934-1943, London, Oxford U.P
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ✨ Simone Weil (1962). Selected Essays: 1934-1943, London, Oxford U.P

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