"Patriotism is idolatry of the self."
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"I can, therefore I am."
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"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
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"Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being."
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"There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies."
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics."
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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 highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
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"Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk."
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"It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void."
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"It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified."
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"Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself."
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"Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others."
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"God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
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"Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood."
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"The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something."
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"Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church."
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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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