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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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

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