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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying

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