Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEILWhenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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 beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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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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