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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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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Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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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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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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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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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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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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