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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

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
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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
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
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself

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