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" The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. "

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

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

" A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "

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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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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