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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
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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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
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
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
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
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual

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