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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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Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?
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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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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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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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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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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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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
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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 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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[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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What does it matter, all is grace.
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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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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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