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Simone Weil
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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
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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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.
Simone Weil
The villagers seldom leave the village many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.
Simone Weil
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.
Simone Weil
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
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Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.
Simone Weil
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
Simone Weil
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
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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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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
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prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.
Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Simone Weil
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
Simone Weil
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
Simone Weil
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
Simone Weil
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
Simone Weil
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil
