Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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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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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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