Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
SIMONE WEILReligion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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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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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 glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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