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

Simone Weil

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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

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