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Biography - Simone Weil:

French philosopher, mystic and political activist.
Born: 1909 - Died: 1943
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

The beautiful: that which we do not want to change.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le beau est ce qu'on ne peut pas vouloir changer.

German
Das Schöne ist das, was man nicht ändern will.




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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.





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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





What beauty is, I know not.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.











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Simone Weil also said...


I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.





Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.





A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.





Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good.












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