We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the subl — Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the subl — Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the subl — Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the subl — Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the subl — Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
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We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

— Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
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