Love is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEILWar is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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