Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEILSin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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