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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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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real 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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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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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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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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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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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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