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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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War

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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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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