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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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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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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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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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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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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for 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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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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[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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First of all, be what you are.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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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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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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