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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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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Fire destroys that which feeds it.
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Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.
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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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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
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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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The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.
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How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
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Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
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the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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