To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILCompassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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For 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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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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