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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
Autobiographer
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French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
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Trade Unionist
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Paris
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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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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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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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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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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Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
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