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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
[ Injustice ]
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
[ Language ]
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
[ Atheism ]
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
[ Beauty ]
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
[ Charity ]
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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
[ Life and Living ]
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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
[ Jesus Christ ]
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
[ Pain ]
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I can, therefore I am.
[ Existence ]
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
[ Nations ]
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
[ Imagination ]
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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
[ Churches ]
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
[ Purity ]
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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
[ Machinery ]
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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
[ Oppression ]
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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
[ Purity ]
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
[ Genius ]
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
[ Work ]
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
[ Past ]
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
[ The future ]
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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
[ Education ]
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
[ Soul ]
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
[ Power ]
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
[ Paradise ]
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
[ Reality ]
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