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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Simone Weil

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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 extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

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