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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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

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