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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
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French Resistance Fighter
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
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Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude for he is a thinking creature.
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It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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School children and students who love God should never say: For my part I like mathematics I like French I like Greek. They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
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