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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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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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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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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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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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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First of all, be what you are.
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A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.
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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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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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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 can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.
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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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Hell is not to love anymore.
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