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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Simone Weil

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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