Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
SIMONE WEILEverything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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