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"Le bien est pour nous un néant puisque aucune chose n’est bonne. Mais ce néant n’est pas irréel. Tout ce qui existe, comparé à lui, est irréel."
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"A future which is completely impossible, like the ideal of the Spanish anarchists, degrades us far less and differs far less from the eternal than a possible future. It does not even degrade us at all, except through the illusion of its possibility. If it is conceived of as impossible, it transports us into the eternal."
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Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.
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