There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEILWhat a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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