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Simone Weil: “The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
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Simone Weil: “To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
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Simone Weil: “Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Simone Weil: “An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Simone Weil: “A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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Simone Weil: “The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
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Simone Weil: “Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
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Simone Weil: “The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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Simone Weil: “Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Simone Weil: “Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
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Simone Weil: “The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.
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Simone Weil: “The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through?'
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