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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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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[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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God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
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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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