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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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