There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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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The world is God’s language to us.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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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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Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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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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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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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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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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