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

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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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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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