I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEILPatriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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