I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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And what have you laymen made of hell A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- ''enemies of society,'' as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any moreGeorges Bernanos
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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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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The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
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