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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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