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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
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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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The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
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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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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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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
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A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
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Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
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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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The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.
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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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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 contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
Simone Weil
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
Simone Weil
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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