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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True

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