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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
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
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
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
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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