“To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents… Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.”

— Georges Bernanos

Chantal to Dr. La Pérouse, p. 187
La joie (Joy) 1929

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“To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents… Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.”

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