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Love Quotes by Simone Weil
- Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....
- Fire destroys that which feeds it.
- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
- It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
- Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this…
- Official history is believing the murderers at their word.
- Distance is the soul of beauty.
- 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…
- To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
- Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
- We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
- The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- Man alone can enslave man.
- As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
- An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
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