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The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

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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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Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.
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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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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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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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We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
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The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
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There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
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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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I am not a Catholic but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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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 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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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
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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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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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The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
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