War is the supreme form of prestige.
SIMONE WEILFor 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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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