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• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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  God, Wall, Communication

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

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  Faith, Lying, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

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• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

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  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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• If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

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  Life, War, Attention And Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

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  Love, Fall, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.46, Routledge

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• Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

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  Truth Is

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.118, Psychology Press

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• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

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  Running, Learning, Breathing

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

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• Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

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  Simple, Roots, Effort

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.44, Routledge

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• Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Affliction

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.26, Psychology Press

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• Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

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  Humility, Compassion, Oneself

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.104, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

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  Trying, Attention, Faults

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.116, Psychology Press

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• Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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  Thinking, Justice, Different

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.188, U of Nebraska Press

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• The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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  Men, Intelligent, Differences

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

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• The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

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  Race, Idols, People

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.6, Routledge

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• If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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  Meditation, Desire, Awareness

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

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• An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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  Love, Atheist, Atheism

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• Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

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  Creation, Acts Of Love, Perpetual

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.32, Psychology Press

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• I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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  Country, Suffering, Humiliation

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

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• Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Expectations, Waiting

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• In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

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  Truth, Lying, People

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• Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts

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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

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  God, Matter, Impossible

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.214, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

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  Peace, War, Errors

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• If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

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  Order, Evil, Desire

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

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  Science, Intellectual, Principles

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

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