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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

The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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

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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