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" I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. "

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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. "

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

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

" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "

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

" Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. "

" 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. "

" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. "

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" To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. "

" Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. "

" As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. "

" I can, therefore I am. "

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" Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. "

" Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. "

" 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. "

" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "

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

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

" Humility is attentive patience. "

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