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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Simone Weil

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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 sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React 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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

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