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Simone Weil (February 3, 1909August 24, 1943) was a French philosopher and mystic..

"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 more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict."

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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

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"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."

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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."

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"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe."

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"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."

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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."

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