Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEILThe 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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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