Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEILIt is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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