Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILLove is not consolation, it is light.
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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.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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