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• What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

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  Oppression, Appearance, Economics

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.59, Routledge

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• Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

  Simone Weil

  Firsts, Indirect, Method

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.117, Psychology Press

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• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

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• Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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  Modern Life, Action, Life Is

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.153, Psychology 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.

  Simone Weil

  Faith, Lying, Soul

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

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• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

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  Crush, Truth, Men

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

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• Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

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  Live In The Moment, Saint, Today

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.28, Routledge

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• Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

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  Appreciate, Flavor, Form

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

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• It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Self

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.4, Routledge

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• There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

  Simone Weil

  Effort, Salvation, Easiness

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• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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  Dream, Real, Joy

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

  Simone Weil

  Prayer, Heart, Attentiveness

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• In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Believe, Order

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.137, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Renunciation is submission to time.

  Simone Weil

  Submission, Renunciation

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.221, Routledge

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

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  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

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

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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.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Country, Children

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

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• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Paradise, Hell

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

  Simone Weil

  Absence, Feels

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• I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

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  Christian, Civilization, Aggravation

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• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

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  Teamwork, Taken, Sorrow

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.21, Routledge

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

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  Suffering, Chance, Hunger

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.5, Routledge

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• The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

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  Order, Two, Humanity

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

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  Art, Work, Perfect

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

  Simone Weil

  Religious, Heart, Son

  "Letter to a Priest". Book by Simone Weil, section 8, 1951.

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• Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

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  Light, Needs, Bread

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.180, Psychology Press

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