A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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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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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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