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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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When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: It is the trade entering his body. Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.
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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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The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
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Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
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There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
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Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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