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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through
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Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
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