Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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