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To assume power over is to soil. To possess is to soil.
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What evil violates is not goodness, for goodness is inviolate; only a degraded good can be violated.
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Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.
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The beautiful is that which we cannot wish to change.
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The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice.
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The false God changes suffering into violence. The true God changes violence into suffering.
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The crime which is latent in us, we must inflict on ourselves.
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Time leads us whither we do no wish to go.
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Leaves and fruit are a waste of energy if our only wish is to rise.
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To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.
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God gives himself to men either as powerful or as perfect--it is for them to choose.
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A lever. We lower when we want to lift. In the same way, "He who humbleth himself shall be exalted."
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The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul--like pincers to catch hold of God.
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The most commonplace truth when it floods the whole soul is like a revelation.
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It is only effort without desire (not attached to an object) which infallibly contains a reward.
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Love is the teacher of gods and men, for no one learns without desiring to learn.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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It is better to say, 'I am suffering' than 'this landscape is ugly'.
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The spirit, overcome by the weight of quantity, has no longer any other criterion than efficiency.
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The collective is the object of all idolatry.
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It is the social which throws the color of the absolute over the relative.
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He who is above social life returns to it when he wishes, not so he who is below.
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Nothing seems evil to those who serve it except failure in its service.
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We have to turn all our disgust into a disgust for ourselves.
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Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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