We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEILTrue definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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