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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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