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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

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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 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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People

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