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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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