| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6940 |
| QUOTATION: | When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you’re bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Georges Bernanos (1888–1948), French novelist and political writer. M. Olivier, in The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 7 (1936). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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