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

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

" Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. "

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

" In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

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

" I can, therefore I am. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" 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. "

" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "

" 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. "

" A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. "