There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEILThose who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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