To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILGod’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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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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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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