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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
Paris
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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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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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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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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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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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Hell is not to love anymore.
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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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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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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
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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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First of all, be what you are.
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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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