"Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward."

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Source : "Diary of a Country Priest".

Georges Bernanos

#Truth Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.”
“Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.”
“The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.”

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. September 2004.
“You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.”
“My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.”
“Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1950). “Rude Assignment: A Narrative of My Career Up-to-date”
“Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.”

Source : Elias Zerhouni's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 4, 2004.
“I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.”

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