The world is God’s language to us.
SIMONE WEILWar is the supreme form of prestige.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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