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Lust is a mysterious wound in...

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

Georges Bernanos 56 quotes

I have just discovered someth...

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

Georges Bernanos 56 quotes

All her life she [Chantal] ha...

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

Georges Bernanos 56 quotes

Rather than the obsession wit...

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

Georges Bernanos 56 quotes

I can now see to the bottom o...

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

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But I shall give less thought...

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

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I don't think we can ever lea...

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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Our rages, daughters of despa...

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

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Justice in the hands of the p...

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

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The world is eaten up by bore...

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

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[T]he cradle is shallower tha...

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

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Fact is Our Lord knew all abo...

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

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To you a pious young girl who...

To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

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God ordains that beggars shou...

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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Fear, true fear, is a savage ...

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

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The devil, you see, is that f...

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

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And what have you laymen made...

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 more!

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When you think of the huge un...

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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Suicide only really frightens...

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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Faith is not a thing which on...

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

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