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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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• Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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  Beautiful, Sky

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• At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

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  Heart, World, Longing

  Simone Weil, Janet Patricia Little (2003). “Simone Weil on Colonialism: An Ethic of the Other”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Real, Lying, Giving

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

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

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  Believe, History, Matter

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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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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

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  Truth, Dwelling, Long

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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  Reality, Joy

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• Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Space

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.10, Psychology Press

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• Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

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  Sin, Humans, Wretchedness

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

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  Filling Up, Law, Space

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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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• Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

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  Distance, Sin, Wrong Direction

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.41, Routledge

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• Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

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  Power, Ends, Understood

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.146, Psychology Press

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