Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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 hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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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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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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