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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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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
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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