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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Simone Weil

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison

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