Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILWhenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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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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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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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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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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