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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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
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
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love

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