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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
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Consequently Contact Each Encroachment Guard Intelligent Need Other
I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
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Destroy Disillusioned Grandfather Ironic Person Seem Smile Triumphant
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
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Defender Die Ideal Many Obscurity Prevail
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
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Been Gave Large Most One Other Part Satisfy Self Thing
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
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All Condition Evolution General Hypothesis More Much System Theory
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Animate Breath Cell Day First Great Mystery One Our Soul
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
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Arragement Cosmos Deeep Disposition Down Generis Involution Primordial Self Substance Sui
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
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Being Cry Different Earthy Equal Every Life Like Out Passion Something Whole
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
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Commit Crime Grow Increase Like Old Penalize
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
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Country Not Pull Root Them Up
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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Ascending Biology Chemistry Geology Man Physics Understand
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.
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Arose Defence Empirical Individual Large Morality Society
We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Assilimate Experience Heaven Himself Home Impact Manifest Only Permanent Sad Truth
I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
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Ceiling Country Expres Finally Like Man Partition Penetrate Through
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
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Already Been Deep Discover Know Nature Our Tendency
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Each God Incommunicable Particular Party Save Soil Soul Sum Way Whole World

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