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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

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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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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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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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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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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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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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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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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 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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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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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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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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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
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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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Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
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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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