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Weil Simone QUOTES

  • Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity

  • All sins are attempts to fill voids.

  • Love is not consolation. It is light.

  • To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.



  • If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

  • Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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

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

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

  • Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  • A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

  • The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

  • Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.


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