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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
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
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution

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