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Quotation by Simone Weil
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil (1909–1943), French philosopher, mystic. repr. In Selected Essays, ed. Richard Rees (1962). "Human Personality," La Table Ronde (Dec. 1950).
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