Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deepGeorges Bernanos
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
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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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