Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
SIMONE WEILWe are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the 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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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