Quote by Simone Weil
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. - Simone Weil

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil

Other quotes by Simone Weil

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. – Simone Weil

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Future
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When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil

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Hurt, Injury
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. – Simone Weil

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Faith
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Other Quotes from
Paradise, Utopia
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better. – Laurie Halse Anderson

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A fools paradise is a wise mans hell! – Thomas Fuller

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. – J. Horace McFarland

Im lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. – Cathy Guisewite

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amazing

I dont know now if Im funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something thats funny. – Craig Ferguson

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funny

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Christmas