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

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

Simone Weil
Inspiration, People, Giving
Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Simone Weil
Prayer, Giving, Soul

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Simone Weil
Real, Lying, Giving
Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

Simone Weil
Country, War, Giving
"The Power of Words (1937)". "Selected Essays 1934-1943". Book y Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees, p. 224, 1957.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Simone Weil
Stars, Giving, Tree
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil
Peace, Giving, Doe

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

Simone Weil
God, Views, Giving

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Simone Weil
Life, Men, Giving
Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Simone Weil
Men, Giving, Debt
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil
Beauty, Pretty Girl, Giving
Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Simone Weil
Giving, Evolution, Oppression
Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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