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The modern state no longer has anything but rights it does not recognize duties any more.
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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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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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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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What does it matter, all is grace.
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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.
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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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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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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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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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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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God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
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Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
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There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
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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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First of all, be what you are.
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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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Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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