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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
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
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
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
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 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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling 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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
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
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself

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