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- Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in…
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this…
- Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as…
- ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking…
- Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is…
- Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
- The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit…
- 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…
- I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the…
- It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his…
- There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not…
- 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…
- It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of…
- Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
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