A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
SIMONE WEILAll sins are attempts to fill voids.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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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.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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