Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
SIMONE WEILA mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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