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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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

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