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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
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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Himself Lose Men Money
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
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
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality

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