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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.
Georges Bernanos
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Georges Bernanos
Age: 60 †
Born: 1888
Born: February 20
Died: 1948
Died: July 5
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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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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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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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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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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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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
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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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First of all, be what you are.
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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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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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