A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
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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.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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