Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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 sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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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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