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Time Quotes by Simone Weil
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- 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 only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
- The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
- The only great spirit of our time.
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