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Simone Weil

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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.


— Simone Weil


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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.


— Simone Weil


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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.


— Simone Weil


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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.


— 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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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.


— Simone Weil


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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.


— Simone Weil


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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.


— Simone Weil


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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.


— 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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