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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

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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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