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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Simone Weil

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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
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 extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering

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