Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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