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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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

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