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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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