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We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fiction #life #make #make up #more

Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attentive #humility

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

— Simone Weil

#attention #capable #giving #need #people

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

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

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

All sins are attempts to fill voids. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fill #sins

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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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

#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ↗

— Simone Weil

#being #chance #coming #eternal #him