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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

Simone Weil

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile 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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
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
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin

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