Quote by Georges Bernanos
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surro

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

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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

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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos

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