I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEILThere is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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