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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

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
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
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
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

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