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All sins are attempts to fill...

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil 469 quotes

The intelligent man who is pr...

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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If we are suffering illness, ...

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

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Two prisoners whose cells adj...

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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A self-respecting nation is r...

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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One cannot imagine St. Franci...

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

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I would suggest that barbaris...

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

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Imagination is always the fab...

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

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Nothing is less instructive t...

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

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Charity. To love human beings...

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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We can only know one thing ab...

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

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Culture is an instrument wiel...

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

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It is an eternal obligation t...

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

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It is only the impossible tha...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

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The poison of skepticism beco...

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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To be a hero or a heroine, on...

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

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It is grace that forms the vo...

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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Whether the mask is labeled f...

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

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There can be a true grandeur ...

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

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The right to kill: supposing ...

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....