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The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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If you say to someone who has ears to hear: What you are doing to me is not just, you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, I have the right... or you have no right to... They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.
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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
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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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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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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
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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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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
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