The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILFor 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.
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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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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