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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
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Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
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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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The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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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.
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