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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

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

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