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Some Quotes by Simone Weil
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."…
- The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
- No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
- 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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- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
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