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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Do you think chance is really just the logic of God?

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

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.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

[T]here is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

Nothing but a little savage...

What does it matter, all is grace.

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.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

O miracle - thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.
Diary of a Country Priest

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Hell is not to love anymore.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Only the present counts.

[F]irst of all, be what you are.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

Appearances are nothing ... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.

There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.