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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

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