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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.
— Georges Bernanos
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
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Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.
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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.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Do you think chance is really just the logic of God?
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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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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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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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[T]here is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
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Nothing but a little savage...
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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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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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
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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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Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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O miracle - thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!
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The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
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Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits. Diary of a Country Priest — Georges Bernanos
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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Hope is a risk that must be run.
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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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[A]ll 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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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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Only the present counts.
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[F]irst of all, be what you are.
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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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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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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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Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
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Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.
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There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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