There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEILNever react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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 mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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