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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.
Georges Bernanos
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Georges Bernanos
Age: 60 †
Born: 1888
Born: February 20
Died: 1948
Died: July 5
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9th arrondissement
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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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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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Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.
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I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
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The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
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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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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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