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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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