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 WEILNever react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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