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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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Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
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The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
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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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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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We only possess what we renounce what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country, said Anatole France, but he is dying for a few industrialists. But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
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You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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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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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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One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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