Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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