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Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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Fear is the start of wisdom.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
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The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.