It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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