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Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

— Charles Péguy Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

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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)

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

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