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.
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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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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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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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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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 glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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