Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILIt 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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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