Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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