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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.

Simone Weil

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud

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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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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