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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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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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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
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
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
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People

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