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

Simone Weil

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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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 not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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

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