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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Simone Weil

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
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
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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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

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