To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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It 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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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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