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81 " Truth lights up the soul in proportion to its purity, not in any sense to its quantity. It isn't the quantity of metal which matters, but the degree of alloy. In this respect, a little pure gold is worth a lot of pure gold. A little pure truth is worth as much as a lot of pure truth. Similarly, one perfect Greek statue contains as much beauty as two perfect Greek statues. "
― Simone Weil , The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind
82 " You could not have wished to be born at a better time than this, when everything is lost. "
― Simone Weil , First and Last Notebooks
83 " Affiiction makes God appear to be absent for a time, more absent than a dead man, more absent than light in the utter darkness of a cell. A kind of horror submerges the whole soul. During this absence there is nothing to love. What is terrible is that if, in this darkness where there is nothing to love, the soul ceases to love, God's absence becomes final. "
― Simone Weil , Waiting for God
84 " When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or by several conflicting ones, the disturbance is the same. "
― Simone Weil , On the Abolition of All Political Parties
85 " Toda la publicidad, toda la propaganda, tan variada en sus formas, que busca excitar el deseo de lo superfluo, tanto en el campo como entre los obreros, debe ser considerada un crimen. "
― Simone Weil , La Condition ouvrière
86 " La révolution satisfait en même temps ce besoin de l’aventure comme étant la chose la plus opposée à la nécessité, qui est encore une réaction contre le même malheur. Le goût des romans et des films policiers, la tendance à la criminalité qui apparaît chez les adolescents correspond aussi à ce besoin. "
― Simone Weil , Conditions premières d'un travail non servile
87 " Imagine that the devil is in the process of buying the soul of some poor afflicted being, and that someone, taking pity on the one afflicted, were to intervene in the debate and say to the devil: "it is really shameful for you to offer only this price; the thing is worth at least twice that." This sinister farce is what is being played out in the workers' movement by the syndicates, parties, and intellectuals of the left. "
88 " Las mismas palabras [por ejemplo, un hombre dice a su mujer, "te amo"] pueden ser triviales o extraordinarias según la forma en que se digan. Y esa forma depende de la profundidad de la región en el ser de un hombre de donde procedan, sin que la voluntad pueda hacer nada. Y, por un maravilloso acuerdo, alcanzan la misma región en quien las escucha. De tal modo, el que escucha puede discernir, si tiene alguna capacidad de discernimiento, cuál es el valor de las palabras. "
― Simone Weil , Gravity and Grace
89 " Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. "
― Simone Weil
90 " Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. "
91 " Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. "
92 " If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. "
93 " Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. "
― Simone Weil , Lectures on Philosophy
94 " The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. "
95 " 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. "
96 " Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. "
97 " We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. "
98 " 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 sigh that you will recognize it. "
99 " Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. "
100 " True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. "