Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEILEvery being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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