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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

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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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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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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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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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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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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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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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[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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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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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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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
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