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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

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The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

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In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

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There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

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