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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- Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
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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.
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