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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Simone Weil

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
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
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

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

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