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The world is God’s language to us.

Simone Weil

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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom

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