There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
SIMONE WEILDifficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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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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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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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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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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