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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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