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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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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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[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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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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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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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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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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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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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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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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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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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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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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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?
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