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

Simone Weil

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
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
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
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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering

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