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• The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

  Simone Weil

  Needs, Sacred, Truth Is

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Sky

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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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  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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  Pride, Intelligent, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

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  Science, Mind, Village

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• It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

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  Wish, Faults, Made

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.66, Psychology Press

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• Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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  Emptiness, Sin

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

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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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  Equality, Degrees, Needs

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

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  People, Revolution, Opium

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.596, Routledge

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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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  Inspiration, People, Giving

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Lying, Giving

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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• Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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  Beauty, Equality, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

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  Failure, Sleep, Men

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• We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

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  Heaven, Steps, Crosses

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.45, Routledge

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• Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

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  Believe, History, Matter

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• Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

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  Stars, Giving, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Imagine, Knows

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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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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  Money, Men, Want

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• Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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  Reality, Joy

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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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  Silence, Cry, Indifferent

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• Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

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  Single, Solitude, Affection

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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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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  Tyrants, Evil, Politics

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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  Inspirational, Memorable, Void

  La Pesanteur et la Grace "Desirer sans Objet" (1948)

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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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  Grace, Void, Form

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