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" Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. "

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" For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. "

" The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. "

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

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. "

" Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. "

" The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. "

" With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. "

" One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. "

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

" 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. "

" Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. "

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

" A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. "

" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

" Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. "

" 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. "

" In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. "

" It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. "

" To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. "

" It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. "

" We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. "

" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "

" Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. "

" Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. "

" Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. "

" 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. "

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

" If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. "