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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
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
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
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
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
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
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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