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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
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
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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

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