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Simone Weil

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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
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
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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