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Gravity and Grace
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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
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Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
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A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is essentially anonymous about it.
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Alexander is to a peasant proprietor what Don Juan is to a happily married husband.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
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All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight — the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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We believe we are rising because while keeping the same base inclinations (for instance: the desire to triumph over others) we have given them a noble object. We should, on the contrary, rise by attaching noble inclinations to lowly objects.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.
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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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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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February 3, 1909
Died:
August 24, 1943
(aged 34)
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