The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
SIMONE WEILOne has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Purity 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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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