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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Simone Weil

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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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 much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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

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