It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILI also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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