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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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Heaven Light Nature Root Sky Tree
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky

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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