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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
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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Existence Feeling Love
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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