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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

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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 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
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
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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