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• In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

  Simone Weil

  Grief, Struggle, Serenity

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• If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

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  Thinking, World, Affliction

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.81, Psychology Press

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

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  Women, Hero, Order

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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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• When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

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  Pain, Mean, Space

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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• Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

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  Hurt, Men, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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  Friendship, Two, Near And Far

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.42, Routledge

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• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

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  Men, Soul, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.221, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The world is God's language to us.

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  God, World, Language

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

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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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  Nursing, Compassion, Listening

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

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  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

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  Country, War, Giving

  "The Power of Words (1937)". "Selected Essays 1934-1943". Book y Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees, p. 224, 1957.

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• We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

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  Light, Choices, Plant

  "Simone Weil".

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• It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

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  Crucible, Earth, Way

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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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  Soul, Transformation, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.37, Routledge

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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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• Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

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  Powerful, Light, Years

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.33, Routledge

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• You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

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  Lost Everything, Lost, Born

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.177, Psychology Press

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• Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

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  Purity, Ability, Contemplating

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.290, Routledge

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• When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

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  Spiritual, Men, Class

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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  Levers, Contradiction, Transcendence

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• The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

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  Love, Country, Children

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

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• Humility is attentive patience.

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  Patience, Humble, Humility

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.111, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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  Attention, Awareness, Ecstasy

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.515, Routledge

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