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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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• 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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• ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

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  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.79, Routledge

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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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• Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Expectations, Waiting

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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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• 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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• 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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• I can, therefore I am.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

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  Fall, Thinking, Doe

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

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  Lying, Insomnia, Doors

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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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• 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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• 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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