Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
SIMONE WEILStars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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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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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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