Georges Bernanos Quotes
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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I like to look good on the golf course.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
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If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
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I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
