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Simone Weil

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.


— Simone Weil


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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.


— Simone Weil


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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.


— Simone Weil


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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.


— Simone Weil


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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.


— Simone Weil


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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.


— Simone Weil


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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.


— Simone Weil


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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.


— Simone Weil


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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.


— Simone Weil


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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.


— Simone Weil


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Nor does this constitute a delimitation of God's omnipotence if it is not that God could not create a perfect world but that the act which we refer towards by saying "create" in its very essence implies the impossibility of perfection. At this time Simone Weil was a Marxist pacifist and trade unionist. When Simone Weil returned to France her political friends in France dismissed her fears thinking Germany would continue to be controlled by the centrists or those to the left.

She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s taking several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political activism work that would see her assisting in the trade union movement taking the side of the left in the Spanish Civil War and spending more than a year working as a labourer mostly in auto factories so Simone Weil could better understand the working class. Weil wrote throughout her life though most of her writings did not attract much attention until after her death. Simone Weil (French: [simɔn vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher Christian mystic and social activist.

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