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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
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
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
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

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