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«The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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afflicted, certainty, cut out, forgets, impotence, listened, occasionally, perceives, sink
«The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.»
«The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
contemporary, spirituality, The Contemporary
«A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beat, captive, fainting, faints, falsehood, hates, The Captive, The Wall, wall
«An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspects, atheist, concentrated, impersonal
«Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.»
«To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.»
«A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.»
«Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.»
«Nothing is less instructive than a machine.»
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