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One Quotes by Georges Bernanos
- No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
- 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…
- 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…
- Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
- 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…
- 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…
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