Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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