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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Simone Weil

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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
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
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way

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