"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
― Simone Weil
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More From Simone Weil
- "I can, therefore I am."
- "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
- "The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."
More In Great
- "I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way."― Julia Roberts
- "And your very flesh shall be a great poem."― Walt Whitman
- "At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."― Samuel Johnson