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

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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
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
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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

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

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