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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.

Simone Weil

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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

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