Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
SIMONE WEILFor 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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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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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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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