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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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• In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

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  Time, Would Be, World

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.198, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Aggravation

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.129, Psychology Press

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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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• 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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• We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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  Renounce

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.34, Psychology Press

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• Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Attachment

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• We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

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  Imagination, Suffering, Ugly

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.199, U of Nebraska Press

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• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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  Kindness, Optimistic, Mean People

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

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• Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

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  Obstacles, Source, Consolation

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• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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  Dream, Real, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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  Country, Peace, War

  "The Power of Words" (1937)

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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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• 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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• 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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• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

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  Race, Color, Needs

  "Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation" (1943)

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• The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

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  Creation, Imitation, Apprehension

  Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

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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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• Joy is being fully aware of reality.

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  Reality, Joy

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• Fire destroys that which feeds it.

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  Fire, Challenges

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.132, Routledge

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• The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

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  Environmental, World, Matter

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.60, Routledge

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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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  Life, Real, Carpe Diem

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

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  Love Is, Radiance, Pure Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Love is not consolation, it is light.

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  Love, Life, Light

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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• A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Mirrors

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God”

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