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There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

— Charles Péguy Le Mystère des saints Innocents [The Mystery of the Holy Innocents (1912)

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The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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