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.
SIMONE WEILEverything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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