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[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

— Georges Bernanos

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God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

The sin against hope: the most deadly of all, and perhaps the most accepted, the most cherished.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

There's no hatred that can ever be satisfied either in this world or the next, and the hatred that one has for oneself is probably the one for which there is no forgiveness.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

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