Simone Weil , who occasionally used the anagrammatic pen name Emile Novis, was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.
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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life”
Simone Weil
“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.”
“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.”
“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?"”
“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.”
“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.”
“It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.”
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.”
“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.”