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Born in 1909 to a Jewish family in Paris, Simone Weil had a privileged childhood. An academic prodigy, she left a teaching career to become a factory worker in order to better feel and know the afflictions of the working class. Though drawn to pacifism, she went to Spain to fight the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. An agnostic, her hunger for beauty, virtue, and goodness was fed by her conviction that anyone can enter "the kingdom of truth" if only "he longs for truth and perpetually concentrates all his attention on its attainment." She never conceived of the possibility of a "real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God" until one day "Christ himself came down and took possession of me." Though she would remain religiously unaffiliated her entire life, the reality of this experience never left her. Simone Weil fled France when the Nazis invaded and joined the French resistance in London. In solidarity, she committed to eating the same rations as the men at the front. During the summer of 1943, she contracted tuberculosis and, weakened by malnourishment, she died within weeks.
Waiting for God By Simone Weil
Waiting for Godby Simone Weil
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The Need for Roots By Simone Weil
The Need for Rootsby Simone Weil
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Gravity and Grace By Simone Weil
Gravity and Graceby Simone Weil
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Gravity and Grace By Simone Weil
Gravity and Graceby Simone Weil
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Simone Weil By Simone Weil
Simone Weilby Simone Weil
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War And The Iliad By Simone Weil
War And The Iliadby Simone Weil
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Love in the Void By Simone Weil
Love in the Voidby Simone Weil
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The Need for Roots By Simone Weil
The Need for Rootsby Simone Weil
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The Power of Words By Simone Weil
The Power of Wordsby Simone Weil
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Selected Essays, 1934-1943 By Simone Weil
Selected Essays, 1934-1943by Simone Weil
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Lectures on Philosophy By Simone Weil
Lectures on Philosophyby Simone Weil
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Simone Weil By Simone Weil
Simone Weilby Simone Weil
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Oppression and Liberty By Simone Weil
Oppression and Libertyby Simone Weil
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Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks By Simone Weil
Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeksby Simone Weil
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$29.99
Gravity and Grace By Simone Weil
Gravity and Graceby Simone Weil
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Venice Saved By Simone Weil
Venice Savedby Simone Weil
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The Simone Weil reader By Simone Weil
The Simone Weil readerby Simone Weil
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La pesanteur et la grace By Simone Weil
La pesanteur et la graceby Simone Weil
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Letter to a Priest By Simone Weil
Letter to a Priestby Simone Weil
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The Need for Roots By Simone Weil
The Need for Rootsby Simone Weil
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$39.99
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks By Simone Weil
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeksby Simone Weil
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The Need for Roots By Simone Weil
The Need for Rootsby Simone Weil
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$15.99
Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals) By Simone Weil
Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)by Simone Weil
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$76.99
La pesanteur et la grâce By Simone Weil
La pesanteur et la grâceby Simone Weil
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