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Simone Weil was a French woman, a philosopher and of a non-practicing Jewish family. She died at the age of 34 of starvation in 1943. She is not to be confused with Simone de Beauvoir, fellow philosopher and mistress of French existentialist philosopher...

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A Tale of Two Simones

Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil, they were two complex and enigmatic personalities that had some similarities and many differences. Both were contemporaries French women; both philosophers; both strong, independent and knowing their own minds; both...

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To Everything There is a Season

"Turn, Turn, Turn" is the name of a song by the 60's rock and roll group The Byrds. It's inspired by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 from the Old Testament. The song goes: "To everything, turn, turn, turn, There is a season, turn, turn, turn, And a time for every...

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