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.
SIMONE WEILThere are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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