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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

Simone Weil

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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand

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