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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Capitalists Criminals Cut Enemies
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Everyone Future Hour Minutes
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Creatures Dark Eyes Found
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Imagination Meaning Natural Truth
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Gentle Gradual Hell Milestones
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

About Been Discover Discovery
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art Enables Find Lose
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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Give Itself Known Make
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Capacities Choices Deepest Enable
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Simply Become Competence Daily
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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Body Cannot Conform Even
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Constantly Darkness Enlightened Even
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Analysis Else Existence Fails
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Conscience Demands Difficult Fidelity
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Artificial Humility Makes Pride
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Am I Am I Think Perhaps
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Classroom Done Learning Least
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Hell History Modern Nations
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Attentive Being Courage God
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Being Gives Love Miracles
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Because God Others Ourselves
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Big Infinite Infinitely Left
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Care Effects Good Leaves
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.

Borders Came Day Down
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Hatched Indefinitely Jolly Just
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Progress Case Doing Man
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Across Large Letters Miracles
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Big Book Cup Enough
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Earth Escapes Human Iniquity
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Affection Durable Happiness Lives
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Begin Comfort Despair Either
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Admitted Gave God
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Done God Kinds People
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Cause Explanation Justification Reason
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Nonsense Questions Quite Mortal
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Ever Fear Felt Grief
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Believing Humble People Pious
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Inhabit Animals Belong Eternal
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Joy Pleasures Sometimes Whether
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Break Fact Laws Miracles
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Call Instrument Man Nature
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Apart Before Began Done
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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