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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.

Simone Weil

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
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
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
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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
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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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
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
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
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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Himself Lose Men Money

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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