I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILI suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILEverything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEILExpectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
SIMONE WEILIf we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
SIMONE WEILLove of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEILJoy is being fully aware of reality.
SIMONE WEILLove: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILThe sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEILWhen 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.
SIMONE WEILStars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEILNever react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
SIMONE WEILIt is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILIt is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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