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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
SIMONE WEIL

Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
SIMONE WEIL

Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place

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