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

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #beauty #gives #never #promises

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

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

— Simone Weil

#charity #does #far #god #human

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

#defined #door #every #kind #morality

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

#beings #degree #due #effectively #equal

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. ↗

— Simone Weil

#even #evil #felt #necessity #power

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

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People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages. ↗

— George Weinberg

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