Simone Weil - Gravity and Grace

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We believe we are rising because while keeping the same base inclinations (for instance: the desire to triumph over others) we have given them a noble object. We should, on the contrary, rise by attaching noble inclinations to lowly objects.

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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

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It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

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To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

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