Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948 writer) / Fragment of autograph manuscript, 1 p small in-4 of school notebook, paginated 12 : " [...] I am one of you, I assure you, any one of you, and if I think unceasingly about what divides you, it is that what divides you also shares me. I hold you, however different you may be, by fibers that are too deep. Whatever happens, I will never feel at one with myself as long as all French people have not found each other, I will only understand myself completely the day you will have started to understand each other again. To understand each other, to know where we stand, is it not essential to see clearly where we started from? Never was the level of national life lower than in the days of Munich or of the Armistice.

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