The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
~ Simone Weil

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
~ Simone Weil

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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.
~ Simone Weil

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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
~ Simone Weil

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Humility is attentive patience.
~ Simone Weil

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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
~ Simone Weil

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Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
~ Simone Weil

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
~ Simone Weil

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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
~ Simone Weil

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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
~ Simone Weil

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