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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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• The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

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  Needs, Sacred, Truth Is

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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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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• 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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• The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

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  Evil, Way

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

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  Prayer, Giving, Soul

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• Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

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  Beautiful, Sky

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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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• It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

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  Nature, Light, Sky

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

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  Spiritual, Men, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, 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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• 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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