Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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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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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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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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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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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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