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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 essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
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Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
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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 world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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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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Necessity is God's veil.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of 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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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
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The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
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