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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
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
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
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
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual

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