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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

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
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly 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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

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