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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

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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
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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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

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

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