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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Simone Weil

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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

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