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To kill nothing, that is love.
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The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
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In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
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"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
