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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Simone Weil

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
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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

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