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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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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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In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
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A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
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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 extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
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The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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