The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
SIMONE WEILOfficial history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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