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Simone Weil

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love

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