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

Simone Weil

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 a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
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
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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

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