Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEILAll sins are attempts to fill voids.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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