Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
SIMONE WEILTrue definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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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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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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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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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.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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