All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEILIt is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Love is not consolation, it is 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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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 world is God’s language to us.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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