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Quotation by Georges Bernanos
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Georges Bernanos (24)Additional Sources
"France Before the World of Tomorrow" The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos (1955)M. Olivier, in The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)Madame la Comtesse, in The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)The Curé de Torcy, in The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)Related Subjects
adolescent development (14) growing up female (6) parents on living with teenagers (6) adolescent and adult relationships, general (6) adolescent development of girls, influence of pare (5) adolescents' friendships and peer groups (4) adolescent development in girls (4) parenting across the years (2) teenagers (2) advice to parents (2)
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
Georges Bernanos (1888–1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 4 (1936).
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