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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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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love

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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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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