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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.

Simone Weil

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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering

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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