There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
SIMONE WEILI also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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