To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILIf you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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