Love is not consolation, it is light.
SIMONE WEILHuman existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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