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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Simone Weil

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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 glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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