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

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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
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
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
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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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Exception Gift Loan Value
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves

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

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