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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

Simone Weil

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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

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