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Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
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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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
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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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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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We only possess what we renounce what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.
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Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
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The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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