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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
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French Resistance Fighter
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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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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Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
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What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
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We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
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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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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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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
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