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First Quotes by Georges Bernanos
- The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
- What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
- 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…
- 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…
- Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.
- When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem…
- Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
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