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.
SIMONE WEILImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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