An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEILImagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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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