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.
SIMONE WEILThe beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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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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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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