A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
SIMONE WEILStars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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