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

Simone Weil

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
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word

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