It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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For 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.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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