A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEILThose who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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