To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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