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

Simone Weil

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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World

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