We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEILWe only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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 beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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