We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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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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