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When a man's life is destroyed...

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

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To us, men of the West, a very...

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

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The proper method of philosoph...

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

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I suffer more from the humilia...

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

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A man whose mind feels that it...

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

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The payment of debts is necess...

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

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Truth is one, but error is man...

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

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The Our Father is to prayer wh...

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

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It is grace that forms the voi...

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

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Never react to an evil in such...

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

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Creation is an act of love and...

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

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To die for God is not a proof ...

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

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The sea is not less beautiful ...

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

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Beauty captivates the flesh in...

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

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We are like plants that have t...

We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

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Sin is nothing else but the fa...

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

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Evil is license, and that is w...

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

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Love of God is pure when joy a...

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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We must not wish for the disap...

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

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Contradiction itself, far from...

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

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