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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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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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

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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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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