There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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 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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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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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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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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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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Imaginary 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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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