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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
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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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
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
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
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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God Love Ourselves Reason
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
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot

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