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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

~ Simone Weil

Detachment Endured Hatred Lying Pain Present Too Unless Where Without

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

~ Simone Weil

Crime Hideous Justice Modern Modern Society More Namely One Thing Only Only One Thing Repressive Society Than Thing

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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

~ Simone Weil

Anything Attention Capable Giving Need People Them Those Unhappy Who World

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

~ Simone Weil

Give Hero Heroine Must Oneself Order

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

~ Simone Weil

Human Human Soul Important Least Most Need Perhaps Recognized Rooted Soul The Most Important

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

~ Simone Weil

Get Over Possess Power

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

~ Simone Weil

Conceived Defined Door Every Kind Morality Neither Nor Notion Open Public Set Standard Tyranny Up Which

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

~ Simone Weil

Afforded Art Fault Friendship Gratuitous Great Joy Joys Life Like Ought Want

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

~ Simone Weil

Above Because Best Ends Great Lives Necessarily Pettiness Put Separating Them Themselves Work Works Write

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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

~ Simone Weil

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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

~ Simone Weil

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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

~ Simone Weil

About Alone Contemplate God He Him Image Know More One Thing Only Our Thing

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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

~ Simone Weil

Hell Imaginary Must Paradise Prefer Real

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

~ Simone Weil

Calls Country Help Interests Live Make People Things Vital War

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

~ Simone Weil

Being Entire Human Human Being Intelligence Whatever

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

~ Simone Weil

Contradiction Door Except Impossible Know Lie Really Resolve Then

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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

~ Simone Weil

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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

~ Simone Weil

Brute Brute Force Cannot Corpses Dead Easier Fools Force Ideas More Nothing Once Spread Story Than Were Who

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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

~ Simone Weil

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Simone Weil

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03 February, 1909

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24 August, 1943

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French Southern Territories

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