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.
SIMONE WEILArt is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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There 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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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