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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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

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