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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. (Simone Weil)
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. View quote
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The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression. View quote
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Conscience is deceived by the social. Our supplementary energy (imaginative) is to a great extent taken up with the social. It has to be detached from it. That is the most difficult of detachments. View quote
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The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul. View quote
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Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood. View quote
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Every atheist is an idolater - unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters. View quote
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The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. View quote
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Men ... ask nothing better, it would seem, than to leave their destiny, their life, and all their thoughts in the hands of a few men with a gift for the exclusive manipulation of this or that technique. View quote
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What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. View quote
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. (Simone Weil)
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. View quote
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. View quote
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We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering,” than to say, "This landscape is ugly. View quote
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. View quote
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. View quote
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. View quote
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. View quote
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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence. View quote
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. View quote
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We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us. (Simone Weil)
Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity. View quote
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When I read the catechism of the Council of Trent, it seems as though I had nothing in common with the religion there set forth. View quote
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Action is the pointer which shows the balance. We must not touch the pointer but the weight. View quote
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Alexander is to a peasant proprietor what Don Juan is to a happily married husband. View quote
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