"Truth is meant to save you first. The……" — Georges Bernanos
"Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward."
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40 Quotes by Georges Bernanos
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Afterward Quotes
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
— Sun Tzu
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you…
— Napoleon Hill
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
— Terry Crisp
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
— Carl Sandburg
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
— Edward Topsell
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