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

Simone Weil

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence

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