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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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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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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The only great spirit of our time.
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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
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The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
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The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.
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Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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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.
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Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Simone Weil
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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