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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way

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