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“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.”

Simone Weil · Society

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty

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

God

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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.

Loneliness

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Intelligence