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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up 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

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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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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