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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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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Exception Gift Loan Value
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom

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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