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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution

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