I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEILThe world is God’s language to us.
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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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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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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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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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