In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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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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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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