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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. - Simone Weil

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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. - Simone Weil

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. - Simone Weil

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. - Simone Weil

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. - Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. - Simone Weil

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. - Simone Weil

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. - Simone Weil

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. - Simone Weil

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. - Simone Weil

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. - Simone Weil

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. - Simone Weil

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. - Simone Weil

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

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

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