The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non- payment of debts is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

About Simone Weil

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Simone Adolphine Weil (; French: [simɔn adɔlfin vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

soul home rootedness

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

sin desire need emptiness

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