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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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue

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