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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
Simone WeilSimone Weil One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
Simone WeilSimone Weil There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Simone WeilSimone Weil If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
Simone WeilSimone Weil A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone WeilSimone Weil 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
Simone WeilSimone Weil It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Simone WeilSimone 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.
Simone WeilSimone Weil I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone WeilSimone Weil For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone WeilSimone Weil Love is not consolation, it is light.
Simone WeilSimone Weil
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