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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

Simone Weil

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
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
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
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves

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