Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
SIMONE WEILEverything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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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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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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