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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
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
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
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
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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