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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

Simone Weil

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom

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