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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
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
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
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
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

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