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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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

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