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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Simone Weil

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
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
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

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