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I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
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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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses 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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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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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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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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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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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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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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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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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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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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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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