Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILEverything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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