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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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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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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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