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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Simone Weil

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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