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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

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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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
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
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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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

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