"God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."

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Source : Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.62, Psychology Press

Simone Weil

“What... are you?" she choked out. "No sunlight. Funky choppers." he inhaled raggedly. "Take a guess.”
“Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.”
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.”
“I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.”
“One particular night I was at the theater. I was not scouting for a project, but I was touched by this play by Ã‰velyne de la CheneliÃ¨re. I was touched by the character. I thought it was a rich character that could be rich enough for a movie.”
“The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone
“Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.”

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