Simone Weil - To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends b...

Simone Weil Zitate

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Simone Weil

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Das Leben der Großen zu schreiben, indem man sie von ihren Werken trennt, endet notwendigerweise mit der Betonung ihrer Kleinlichkeit, denn in ihrer Arbeit haben sie das Beste aus sich gemacht.

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