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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

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Georges Bernanos
Age: 60 †
Born: 1888
Born: February 20
Died: 1948
Died: July 5
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9th arrondissement
Paris
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If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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First of all, be what you are.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
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