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The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Simone Weil

Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity

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