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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
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
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
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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