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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking

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