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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
Autobiographer
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French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
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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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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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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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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
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Necessity is God's veil.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
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Humility is attentive patience.
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The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
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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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Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
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We only possess what we renounce what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
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Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
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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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