To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ✨ Simone Weil…

Simone Weil
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.70, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. ✨ Simone Weil (2003). The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind, p.299, Routledge
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. ✨ Simone Weil (1973). Waiting for God
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. ✨ Simone Weil (2003). The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declarat … ▶

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.70, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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