Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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