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As in the West, the word God, taken in its usual meaning, signifies a Person, men whose attention, faith and love are almost exclusively concentrated on the impersonal aspect of God can actually believe themselves and declare themselves to be atheists, even though supernatural love inhabits their souls.

— Simone Weil

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Often misquoted as "An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

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