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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

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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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
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
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

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