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Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
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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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude for he is a thinking creature.
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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.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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'.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
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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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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
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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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