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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
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
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
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
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
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

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