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"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
"An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world."
"Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement."
"The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue."
"From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue."
"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
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