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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Simone Weil

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity

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