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Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.

— Simone Weil

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Source: "Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
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