Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
SIMONE WEILImaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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