Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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