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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?
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
Paris
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[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.
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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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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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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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Hell is not to love anymore.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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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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