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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance

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