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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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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