To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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