What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
SIMONE WEILAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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