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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
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
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
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

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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