We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEILA hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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