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100 Quotations of Simone Weil.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if o ...2.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ...3.
A mind enclosed in language is in pri ...4.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renu ...5.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not p ...6.
All sins are attempts to fill vo ...7.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impers ...8.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain ...9.
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the ...10.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by ...11.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anyt ...12.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love the ...13.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who whe ...14.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and ma ...15.
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a s ...16.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by ...17.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin ...18.
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something ...19.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or eve ...20.
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