Simone Weil
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"Simone Weil" was a France/French philosopher, Christian mysticism/Christian mystic, and political activist.

Weil's life was marked by an exceptional compassion for the suffering of others; at the age of six, for instance, she refused to eat sugar after she heard that soldiers fighting in World War I had to go without. She died from tuberculosis during World War II, possibly exacerbated by malnutrition after refusing to eat more than the minimal rations that she believed were available to soldiers at the time.

After her graduation from formal education, Weil became a teacher. She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s, taking several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political activism, work that would see her assisting in the trade union movement, taking the side of the Anarchism in Spain#Anarchist presence in the Spanish Civil War/Anarchists known as the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War, and spending more than a year working as a labourer, mostly in auto factories, so she could better understand the working class.

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

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.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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