Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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