We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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