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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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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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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
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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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
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
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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Mercy Myself Rich Touch Wealth
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love

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