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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Simone Weil

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
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
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
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 a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

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