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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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