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

Simone Weil

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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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 not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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

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

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