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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. 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. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.Simone Weil
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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.Simone Weil
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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.Simone Weil
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To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.Simone Weil
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Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).Simone Weil
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It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.Simone Weil
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.Simone Weil
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If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.Simone Weil
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Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention.Simone Weil