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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.

Simone Weil

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
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
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

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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