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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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School children and students who love God should never say: For my part I like mathematics I like French I like Greek. They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
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We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
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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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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
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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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Renunciation is submission to time.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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