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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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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Each Other Friendship Seperate
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
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
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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

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