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Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
Autobiographer
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French Resistance Fighter
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Simone Adolphine Weil
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
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How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.
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Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
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prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.
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