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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.

Simone Weil

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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 grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin

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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