Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEILAbsolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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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 world is God’s language to us.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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