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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Simone Weil

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True

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