Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters. - Simone Weil

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Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Simone Weil

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Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French social and religious philosopher, and Christian mystic. Politically active, during the Spanish Civil War she joined the Anarchist military unit known as the Durruti Column, and took part in the French Resistance during World War II. She was the sister of mathematician André Weil, with whom she shared an interest in ancient Greek and Indian thought.

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