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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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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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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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God Love Ourselves Reason
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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