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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos
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Georges Bernanos
Age: 60 †
Born: 1888
Born: February 20
Died: 1948
Died: July 5
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9th arrondissement
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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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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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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
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The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.
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[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.
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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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Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.
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The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.
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I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
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I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.
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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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All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
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Hell is not to love anymore.
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I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:: What's the use?
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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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