I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILOfficial history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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