The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. - Simone Weil

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Simone Weil: "The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth."

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During	Except	Excitement	Freedom
Inability	Mens	Need	Nervous
Permanent	Physical	Real	Regimes
Spiritual	Stand	State	Strain
Stumblingblock	Thought	Totalitarian	Years
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