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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

Simone Weil

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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 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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
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
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
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
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

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

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