Simone Weil Quotes

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

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Love is not consolation. It is light.

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We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

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There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

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We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

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When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.

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Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

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La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme.

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

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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

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Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

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