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One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
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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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
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