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• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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  Happiness, Real, Evil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

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• It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

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  Imagine, Christ, Easier

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.

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  Religion, Essentials, Knows

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• Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

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  Loan, Exception, Values

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

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  World, Definitions, Study

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.258, Routledge

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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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• The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

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  Real, Civilization, Intellectual

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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 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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• God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

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  Wealth, Rich, Mercy

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.24, Routledge

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

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  Stars, Night, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

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  Light, Inability, Faults

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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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