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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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Simone Adolphine Weil
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Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
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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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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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Evil is neither suffering nor sin it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the I from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
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Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
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The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.
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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
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