All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEILIt 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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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