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Charles Pguy (January 7, 1873-September 4, 1914) was a noted French poet and essayist. His two main inspirations were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, he had became a devout but non-practicing Catholic. From then on, Catholicism had an major influence on his works. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors."

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

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"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see."

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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."

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"Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty."

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"We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body. "

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