Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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