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" The future is made of the same stuff as the present. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

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

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

" What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. "

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

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

" More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "