The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
SIMONE WEILThere is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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