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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.

Simone Weil

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 world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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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People Religion Revolution
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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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 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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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