Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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