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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Simone Weil

War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering

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