The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
SIMONE WEILLove of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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