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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
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French Resistance Fighter
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
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The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: It is the trade entering his body. Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.
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The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
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The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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