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| 5c602dd | The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth. | altruism biography birth-and-rebirth french-authors french-biographers french-biographies french-resistance ideologies intellectual-theories jean-paul-sartre public-intellectuals sacrifice service-to-mankind women-biographers writing-life | Annie Cohen-Solal | |
| 8c480c5 | the Temple was rebuilt, but by then the religion of Israel had been marked forever by the piety of the exile. Alongside the single Temple, where blood sacrifice was celebrated, arose numerous synagogues, places for meeting and for prayer, and the dominium of the priests yielded to the growing influence of the Pharisees and Scribes, men of the book and of study. In 70 A.D., the Roman legions again destroyed the Temple. But the learned rabbi .. | Annie Cohen-Solal |