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

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. – Simone Weil

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Murder
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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power
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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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Other Quotes from
Paradise, Utopia
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. – Ernest Hemingway

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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

The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide

Random Quotes

God wants to bless us where we are. – Joel Osteen

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God

When a man says to me, “I have the intensest love of nature,” at once I know that he has none. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857

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Environment

Necessity is the mother of attraction. – Luke Mckissack

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Necessity

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, thats amazing. – Jordan Knight

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amazing