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Very Quotes by Simone Weil
- The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.…
- Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as…
- 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…
- To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at…
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
- Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
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