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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Simone Weil

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
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
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
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

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