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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
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- Simone Weil
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- Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1909 to 1943; Wikidata Q157309, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157309 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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