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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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 not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution

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