Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
SIMONE WEILIt is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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