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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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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

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