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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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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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
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

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