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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

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
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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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 world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves

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