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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble

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