“Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.”

— Georges Bernanos , book Monsieur Ouine

The curé of Fenouille to Dr. Malépine, p. 213
Monsieur Ouine, 1943

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French writer 1888–1948

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