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

Simone Weil

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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself

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

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