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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

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself

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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