"It is the same in the case of the unlawful satisfaction of any desire. The energy we economize in this way is immediately debased."
-Simone Weil, "Void and Compensation"
Gravity & Grace (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952)
translation by Arthur Wills
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"To be able to hurt others with impunity - for instance to pass our anger on to an inferior who is obliged to be silent - is to spare ourselves from an expenditure of energy, an expenditure which the other person will have to make.
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