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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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The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
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All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
Simone Weil
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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Evil is neither suffering nor sin it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
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Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
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Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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Necessity is God's veil.
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
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