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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True

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