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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 atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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Fire destroys that which feeds it.
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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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Man alone can enslave man.
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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
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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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Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
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Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
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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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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
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In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
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