We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
SIMONE WEILTo be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Never 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 not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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