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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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
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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
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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 first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.
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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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First of all, be what you are.
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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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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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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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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 is not to love anymore.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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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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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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