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In my servant the ant, my tiny servant, who hoards greedily like a miser.
Who works like one unhappy and who has no break and who has no rest.

— Charles Péguy The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (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)

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

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

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

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