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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

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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

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