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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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, youre bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! – Georges Bernanos

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Belief
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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. – Georges Bernanos

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. – Aristotle

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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9 – Bible

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 – Bible

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Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked Howls Moving Castle. Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing. – Stephen Hunter

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

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