An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
SIMONE WEILThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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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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Difficult 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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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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