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" A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. "

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" If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. "

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" A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "

" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

" The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. "

" Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. "

" 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. "

" I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. "

" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "

" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "

" We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. "

" The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. "

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" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "

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" Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. "

" In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. "

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" It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. "