Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
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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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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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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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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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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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