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

Simone Weil

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way

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