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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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

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