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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
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
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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
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
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity

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