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Simone Weil Inspirational Quotes (210)

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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
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Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
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Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the I from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
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Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.
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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
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The only great spirit of our time.
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It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
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The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
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The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
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The Our Father contains all possible petitions we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Necessity is God's veil.
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It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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