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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Simone Weil

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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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