Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is ju…

Simone Weil
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ✨ Simone Weil (1973). Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves … ▶
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 doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. ✨ Simone Weil (2013). Oppression and Liberty, p.164, Routledge
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ✨ Simone Weil (1973). Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler

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