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Simone Weil, French philosopher and mystic who left teaching to work factory lines and refused to eat more than the, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 9 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with Gravity and Grace, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On giving your full focus at work:
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
On knowing what is real about yourself:
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
On what it means to truly show up:
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
On facing hardship without demanding it disappear:
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
On grieving a relationship that ended:
Every separation is a link.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
On responding to being wronged:
The false God changes suffering into violence. The true God changes violence into suffering.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
On seeking comfort versus truth from a partner:
Love is not consolation, it is light.Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
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On truly listening to someone in pain:
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'Simone Weil, Waiting for God
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On leaving home for good:
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots