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The only great spirit of our time.

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
Philosopher
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
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We only possess what we renounce what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Man alone can enslave man.
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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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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.
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