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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
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
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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
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

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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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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