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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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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
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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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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Beautiful Love Origin Purity Radiance
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
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
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
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle

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