"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

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Source : Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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“Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.”
“It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.”
“At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.”
“To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.”
“Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.”
“That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.”
“The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.”
“Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.”

Source : "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.

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