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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Simone Weil

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
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
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
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
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
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
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul

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