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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
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
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
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

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