"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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Source : Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.126, Da Capo Press

Georges Bernanos

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“Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.”
“I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly.”

Source : "Life as Chris Lowell". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2014.
“Itâ€™d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow”
“As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.”
“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.”
“I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.”

Source : "Lunch With François Pinault" by Jackie Wullschlager, www.slate.com. April 10, 2011.
“We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.”

Source : Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.
“I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.”

Source : "Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob". Interview with Dana Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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