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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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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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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All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
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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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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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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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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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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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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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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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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.
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