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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

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner 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
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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 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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love

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