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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Simone Weil

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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