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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.

Simone Weil

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
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
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand

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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