Simone Weil Quotes
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
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I can, therefore I am.
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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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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.
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Humility is attentive patience.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.