"Hope is a risk that must be run."
-Georges Bernanos
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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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"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread."
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"Hell, madam, is to love no longer."
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"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man."
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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."
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"Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
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