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

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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
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
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

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

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