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“What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!”

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

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The Diary of a Country Priest

This novel explores the interior life of a young priest serving in a remote French village. It delves into themes of faith, doubt, and the human condition, offering a profound and introspective look at the challenges and triumphs of religious life. more

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Georges Bernanos

Georges Bernanos, born on February 20, 1888, was a renowned French novelist and playwright. His works deeply revealed the complexities of human nature and the dark aspects of society, making him an important representative of French literature. more

“America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.”

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”

Giving Children War Self Dream Joy Lying Values Individual Pleasure Existence Marriage Findings Capable Weakness Asking Oneself Curse Warmth Deceptive Plenitude

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.”

“There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.”

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

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