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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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer

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