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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

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison

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