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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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