Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
SIMONE WEILEvery sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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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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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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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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