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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
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Humility is attentive patience.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
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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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Science is voiceless it is the scientists who talk.
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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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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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We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.
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Man alone can enslave man.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country, said Anatole France, but he is dying for a few industrialists. But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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