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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

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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
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
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
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

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