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)

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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