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The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
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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