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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil
Time, Past, Crime
Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

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Time, Would Be, World
Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.198, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The only great spirit of our time.

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Time, Spirit, Our Time
Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.2, Routledge

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