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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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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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It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
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The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
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You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.
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Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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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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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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