Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
SIMONE WEILEverything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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