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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
Autobiographer
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French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Trade Unionist
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Paris
France
Simone Adolphine Weil
Detachment
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Present
Lying
Pain
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