In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
SIMONE WEILLove: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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