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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
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
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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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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