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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion


Simone de Beauvoir

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SIMONE WEIL Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I gi...
SIMONE ELKELES We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..."
"You've never seen a guy wit...
SIMONE ELKELES Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
SIMONE ELKELES When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
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