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

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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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying

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