The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILLove: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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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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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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