It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
SIMONE WEILIt is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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