Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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