War is the supreme form of prestige.
SIMONE WEILWhen once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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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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