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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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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Day Effort Light Powerful Result Soul
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
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
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
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
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
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 beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love

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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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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