~ 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. ~  ~ The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. ~ ~ To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. ~ ~ A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. ~ ~ Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ~ ~ The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. ~ ~ Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ~ ~ Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
~ ~ Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ~ ~ Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ~ ~ The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ~ ~ Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. ~ ~ Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors ~ ~ Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. ~ ~ The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
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