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

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
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence

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

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