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

Simone Weil

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
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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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True

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

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