Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
SIMONE WEILAll sins are attempts to fill voids.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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