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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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In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
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Man alone can enslave man.
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
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the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
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Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
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Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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 a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
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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 essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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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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