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1. "Il faut beaucoup d'indisciplinés pour faire un peuple libre." ~ Georges Bernanos
2. "On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l'on n'admet pas d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure." ~ Georges Bernanos
3. "God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?" ~ Georges Bernanos
4. "How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ." ~ Georges Bernanos
5. "It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so." ~ Georges Bernanos
6. "Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air." ~ Georges Bernanos
7. "The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means." ~ Georges Bernanos
8. "A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread." ~ Georges Bernanos
9. "No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness." ~ Georges Bernanos
10. "A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all." ~ Georges Bernanos
11. "Hope is a risk that must be run." ~ Georges Bernanos
12. "The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us." ~ Georges Bernanos
13. "Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it." ~ Georges Bernanos
14. "Hell, madam, is to love no longer." ~ Georges Bernanos
15. "It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man." ~ Georges Bernanos
16. "Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward." ~ Georges Bernanos
17. "Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary of a Country Priest" ~ Georges Bernanos
18. "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." ~ Georges Bernanos
19. "Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it." ~ Georges Bernanos
20. "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 supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it." ~ Georges Bernanos
21. "The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more." ~ Georges Bernanos
22. "And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery, the feeling that she was about to learn what she had been unable to learn from her brief experience of love. What she thought about death was childish, but what could never have touched her in the past now filled her with poignant tenderness, as sometimes a familiar face we see suddenly with the eyes of love makes us aware that it has been dearer to us than life itself for longer than we have ever realized." ~ Georges Bernanos
23. "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." ~ Georges Bernanos
24. "Je crois, je suis sûr que beaucoup d'hommes n'engagent jamais leur être, leur sincérité profonde. Ils vivent à la surface d'eux-mêmes, et le sol humain est si riche que cette mince couche superficielle suffit pour une maigre moisson, qui donne l'illusion d'une véritable destinée." ~ Georges Bernanos
25. "There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible." ~ Georges Bernanos
26. "Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling." ~ Georges Bernanos
27. "S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds." ~ Georges Bernanos
28. "Tiens, une ville qu'on traverse la nuit, et tout à coup tu dépasses la dernère maison, tu retombes dans le silence, como dans le vide." ~ Georges Bernanos
29. "Oh! Je sais bien que la compassion d'autrui soulage un moment, je ne la méprise point. Mais elle ne désalèere pas, elle s'écoule dans l'âme comme a travers un crible. Et quand notre souffrance passe de pitié en pitié, ainsi que de bouche en bouche, il me semble que nous ne pouvons plus la respecter, ni l'aimer..." ~ Georges Bernanos
30. "Je n'ai jamais été jeune, parce que personne n'a voulu l'être avec moi." ~ Georges Bernanos
31. "L'honneur d'un peuple appartient aux morts et les vivants n'en ont que l'usufruit" ~ Georges Bernanos

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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone."
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