An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEILIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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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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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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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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