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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

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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Anything
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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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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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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 wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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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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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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