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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Simone Weil

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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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

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