To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
SIMONE WEILWhat 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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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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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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