A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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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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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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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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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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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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