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

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

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