All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEILEvery being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
More Simone Weil Quotes
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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