Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
SIMONE WEILImagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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