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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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