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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
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Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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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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I am not a Catholic but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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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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