Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEILWhen 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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A 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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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