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Necessity is God's veil.
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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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.
Simone Weil
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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Humility is attentive patience.
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It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
Simone Weil
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
Simone Weil
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.
Simone Weil
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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
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The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
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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.
Simone Weil
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
Simone Weil
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
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one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
Simone Weil
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone Weil
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
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