Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
SIMONE WEILWe are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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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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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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