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

Simone Weil

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
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
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love

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

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