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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. ✨ Simone Weil (2003). The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind, p.258, Routledge
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.56, Psychology Press
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.77, Wipf and Stock Publishers
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.53, Psychology Press
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

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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