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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.
Official history is believing the murderers at their word.
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.
The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.