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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• re-awakening
• themselves
• frustrated
• left-hand
• sometimes

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