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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
— Simone Weil
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
— Simone Weil
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
— Simone Weil
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
— Simone Weil
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
— Simone Weil
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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
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