Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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