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The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

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
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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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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.
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The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
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We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
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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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Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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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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Necessity is God's veil.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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