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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

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