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.
SIMONE WEILGrace 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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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 beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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