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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Simone Weil

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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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.
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