Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
SIMONE WEILTo be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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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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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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