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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

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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War

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