Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
SIMONE WEILPain 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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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