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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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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 grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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 glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

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