Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in 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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Grace 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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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