We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILNever react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real 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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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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