Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILA 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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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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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Love 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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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