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French social Philosopher, Mystic and Activist in the French Resistance during World War II. 1909-1943
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?"”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“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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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”

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