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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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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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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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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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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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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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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