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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materia...more

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At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it...more

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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

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Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the c...more

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There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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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 sp...more

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He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

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To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

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When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.