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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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 religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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

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