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Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

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I can, therefore I am.

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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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Humility is attentive patience.

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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

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To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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