Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

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Mots clés liberty choice

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Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him.
Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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I can, therefore I am.

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Love is not consolation. It is light.

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Mots clés love light

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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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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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Mots clés life grace

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When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and head of the nail were infinitely big, if would be just the same; the point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of the soul, and social degradation all at the same time, is a nail whose point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time

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La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme.

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Mots clés beauty the-flesh the-soul

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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

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

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Mots clés inspiration

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