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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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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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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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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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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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
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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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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?
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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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[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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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
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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 knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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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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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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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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