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The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. Rene Dubos
Important Extremely Delayed Indirect Most Effects Pathological The Most Important Pollution
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack. Rene Girard
People Other Our Tell Would Something Feel Come Like Know Always Selves Did Personal Lack Ask Us Depths Even Deepest Desire Desires
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior! Rene Girard
Religion Superior Become Think Others Our Relativism Okay Paradoxically Only Feel Us
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. Rene Girard
Bible Blame Hide Systematically Blaming Myths Instead Gospels Reveals Victimization Victims
Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution. Rene Girard
Learning Lose Ourselves Possible Scapegoat Forever Conflicts Expose Resolution
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims. Rene Girard
Innocence Finally Destroyed System Crucifixion Protective Reveal Narratives Victims Little Jesus
It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total. Rene Girard
Time Every Every Time Worse Destructive Total Insight Civilian More More And More Point Point Of View Take Been Getting Realize Much View Wars
Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West's wealth. Rene Girard
Terrorism Revenge Wealth Vanguard General West Against
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes
Day Society Alienation Way One-Way Only Only One Way Retreat Left Escape Present
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes
Passion Itself Wants Public Image
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes
Saying Worth Trouble Says Must Only Without Understood Prove Cannot Literature Which Even
The little I know I owe to my ignorance. Sacha Guitry
Ignorance Know Owe Little
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers. Samuel de Champlain
Future Before Hunting More Beaver Than Might Engage Ever
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt
Life Energy Rich Spending Oneself Becomes Begets Creates
I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally. Segolene Royal
Me Degrading Spirit Indifferent Having Vengeance Protects Want
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Finger Touch Wing Never Your Butterfly
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our Perfect Never Feet Than Fewer Companions Four
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Matter Furnishing Worse Find Absence Ugliness Than Far Certain
You do not notice changes in what is always before you. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You Before Changes Always Notice
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
First Breath Live Other Worlds Unknown Dream Only Between Narrow Them Us Planet Choice Two
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Meets Once Bad Hat Rarely Absolute Lifetime Part Fellow Him Always Real Authentic Artist Decent Real Thing Ordinary Even Villain Thing
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.' Sigrid Agren
Time Home Great Lie Sweet Down Every Think Every Time Pleasure Great Pleasure Come Bed Same
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. Simone Weil
Faith Reality Made Mysteries Negation Degraded Object Contemplation Affirmation Should
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil
Others Ourselves Degradation Hurtful Bear Which Act
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. Simone Weil
Destination Progress Poison Nothing Other Idea Contrary Than Anything Origin
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
Life Needs History Imagination Fabric Indirect Crowd Compulsion Never Because Always Real Materials Influence Dynamic Social Interests Social Life Conscious
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