Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEILImagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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