Quote by Georges Bernanos
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more th

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. – Georges Bernanos

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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. – Georges Bernanos

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Peace
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I dont despise it. But it cant quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it. – Georges Bernanos

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Kindness
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – Georges Bernanos

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Society
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Hope

Hope deceives more men than cunning does. – Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746

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Hope

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. – Pope John Paul II

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Hope

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. Its to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. Its also full of many wonderful things and love and hope. – P. J. Harvey

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Hope

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You cant wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. – American Indian Proverb

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great

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. – Theresa May

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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a womans quality. – Pierre Corneille

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