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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Simone Weil

God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

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