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

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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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 being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
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
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love

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