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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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Simone Adolphine Weil
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The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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The villagers seldom leave the village many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
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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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Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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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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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
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One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
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Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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