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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Humility is attentive patience. "

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. "

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

" Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. "

" The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. "

" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "

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

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

" 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. "