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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.

Simone Weil

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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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 a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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

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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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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