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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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• 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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• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

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  Filling Up, Law, Space

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• Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Space

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.10, Psychology Press

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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.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Errors

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Opportunity, Civilization, Firsts

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• Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

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  Order, Causes

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.563, 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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• 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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• There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

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  Light, Inability, Faults

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• The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

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  Lying, Rights, Two

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.86, Psychology Press

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• The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

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  Desire, Treasure, Misers

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

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  Creation, Imitation, Apprehension

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

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• The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

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  Art, Works Of Art

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.206, Routledge

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• The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

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  Rights, Relation, Duty

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.2, Routledge

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• As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

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  Encouragement, Punishment, Killers

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

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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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• Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

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  Life, Dominion, Force

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

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  Pharisees, Beast, Obedience

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.169, Psychology Press

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