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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
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
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
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

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

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