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.
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More Simone Weil Quotes
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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