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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Humility is attentive patience.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.