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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Simone Weil

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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
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
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money

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