Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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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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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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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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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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