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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .
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The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
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We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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Necessity is God's veil.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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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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