Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILEverything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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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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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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