Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEILThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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