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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

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