Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEILWhenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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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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