Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
SIMONE WEILGrace 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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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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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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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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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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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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