Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
SIMONE WEILAll sins are attempts to fill voids.
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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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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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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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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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