It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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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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 beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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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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