A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
SIMONE WEILIt is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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