Joy is being fully aware of reality.
SIMONE WEILIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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 sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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