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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

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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 is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
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
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
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

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