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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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
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
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
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
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
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot

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