Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEILEven 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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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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