Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Imaginary 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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