Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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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 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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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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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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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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