"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

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Source : La Pesanteur et la Grace "Desirer sans Objet" (1948)

Simone Weil

#Inspirational Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Void Quotes

“There is no more staunch advocate for taking public dollars and giving them to private schools - private schools that can pick the students they want to teach - than Betsy DeVos.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.”
“Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.”
“The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.”
“I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.”
“Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it w as because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.”
“If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.”

Source : Jenna Black (2016). “Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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