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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
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

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