Georges Bernanos Quotes

• Hell, Madam, is to no longer love.

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• The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

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• What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

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• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

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• It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

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• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

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• Faith is not a thing which one “loses,” we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

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• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

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• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

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• A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all

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• Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

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• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

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• Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

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• Hope is a risk that must be run.

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• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

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• Who are you to condemn another’s sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

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• The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

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• Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

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• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

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• The horrors which we have seen, and the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable people are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile people.

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Georges Bernanos (20)

Birth:	20th February, 1888
Death:	5th July, 1948
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist

About

Georges Bernanos was born in Paris, France. He was a French novelist. Most of his novels have been translated into English and frequently published in both Great Britain and the United States. He wrote several novels include: Under the Sun of Satan, The Impostor, Joy, The Crime, The Diary of a Country Priest, Mouchette, The Open Mind,  The Fearless Heart, and Night Is Darkest.

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