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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Simone Weil

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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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 only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power

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