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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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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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

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