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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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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.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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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.
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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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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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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.
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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.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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