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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

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