What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
SIMONE WEILEven if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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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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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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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