An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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