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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
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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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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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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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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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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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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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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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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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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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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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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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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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