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Simone Weil

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
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
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

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