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Georges Bernanos has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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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.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought…
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
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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 world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and…
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather…
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps…
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has…
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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
— Georges Bernanos
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets…
— John Muir
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There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry,…
— Kate Chopin
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To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've…
— Darren Shan
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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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