Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil
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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.
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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- Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
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