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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

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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
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
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
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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

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