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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
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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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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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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What does it matter, all is grace.
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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] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.
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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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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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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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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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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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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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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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First of all, be what you are.
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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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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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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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