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.
SIMONE WEILPain 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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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