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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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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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.
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The Our Father contains all possible petitions we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
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If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
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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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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
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