All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEILModern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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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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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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