Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILPurity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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