True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
SIMONE WEILI also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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