It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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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.Georges Bernanos
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
Georges Bernanos
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 deep
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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
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
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