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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

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
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin

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