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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Simone Weil

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence

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