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Hell is not to love anymore.

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
Bernanos
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Love

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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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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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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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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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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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