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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simone Weil

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
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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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

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