Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILA 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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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