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Oneself Quotes by Simone Weil
- One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
- To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
- Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless…
- Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
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