Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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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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