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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
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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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
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One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
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The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
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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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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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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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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
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