A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't afraid of sin. On the contrary, she can look it in the face calmly and even take it upon herself, assume it at times, as Our Lord did. When a good workman's been at it for a whole week, surely he's due for a booze on Saturday night. Look: I'll define you a Christian people by the opposite. The opposite of a Christian people is a people grown sad and old. You'll be saying that isn't a very theological definition. I agree...

Why does our earliest childhood always seem so soft and full of light? A kid's got plenty of troubles, like everybody else, and he's really so very helpless, quite unarmed against pain and illness. Childhood and old age should be the two greatest trials of mankind. But that very sense of powerlessness is the mainspring of a child's joy. He just leaves it all to his mother, you see. Present, past, future -- his whole life is caught up in one look, and that look is a smile. Well, lad, if only they'd let us have our way, the Church might have given men that supreme comfort. Of course they'd each have their own worries to grapple with, just the same. Hunger, thirst, poverty, jealousy -- we'd never be able to pocket the devil once and for all, you may be sure. But man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. He'd have lived, he'd have died with that idea in his noddle -- and not just a notion picked up in books either -- oh, no! Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits and customs, relaxation and pleasure, down to the very simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his logarithms, or even the engineer making his playthings for grown-up people. What we would have got rid of, what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam, is that sense of his own loneliness...

God has entrusted the Church to keep [the soul of childhood] alive, to safeguard our candour and freshness... Joy is the gift of the Church, whatever joy is possible for this sad world to share... What would it profit you even to create life itself, when you have lost all sense of what life really is?


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GEORGES BATAILLE
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut...
GEORGES BATAILLE
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was s...
GEORGES CUVIER
Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual, it is mostly ...
GEORGES BERTRAND
It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e...
GEORGES SIMENON
We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, aki...
GEORGES BATAILLE
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...
GEORGES BATAILLE
It's the first time there will be Asian Excellence Awards handed out for performances on TV, movies ...
BILL GEORGES
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a...
GEORGES BIDAULT
Oh to be seventy again.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
GEORGES POMPIDOU
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
GEORGES BRAQUE
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
GEORGES BRAQUE
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
GEORGES BRAQUE
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry
GEORGES BRAQUE
Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted.
SEAN GEORGES
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu...
GEORGES BATAILLE
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
GEORGES SIMENON
If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT
If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
GEORGES CANGUILHEM
The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't...
GEORGES SIMENON
Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce...
GEORGES BATAILLE
He mostly preached in the evening, when the college
church was already shrouded in shadow. And...
GEORGES RODENBACH
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus...
GEORGES BIZET
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET
My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the...
GEORGES CUVIER
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER
sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL
Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to resto...
GEORGES BATAILLE
Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON
It was a rough one.
SEAN GEORGES
Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L...
GEORGES PEREC
I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar...
GEORGES BENJAMIN
This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam...
GEORGES PEREC
Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE
Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC
Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC
Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC
Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC
Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC
Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
I am a believer and a conformist.
GEORGES ROUAULT
Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu...
GEORGES RODENBACH
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ...
GEORGES CUVIER
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not lim...
GEORGES CUVIER
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells ...
GEORGES CUVIER
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even cl...
GEORGES CUVIER
In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE
ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE
What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v...
GEORGES BENJAMIN
If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas...
GEORGES BENJAMIN
A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.
GEORGES BENJAMIN