Quote by Georges Bernanos
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Do

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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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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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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Youth
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Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. – Herbert Agar

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Belief

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Belief

Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. – John Barton

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. – Sophocles

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