We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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 is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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