"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything." — Simone Weil
"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
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233 Quotes by Simone Weil
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- Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....
- The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
- Fire destroys that which feeds it.
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- What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the…
- Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is…
- Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and…