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one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
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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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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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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Distance is the soul of beauty.
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Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
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An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.
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It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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