Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
SIMONE WEILA hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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A 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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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