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Georges Bernanos

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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.


— Georges Bernanos


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Hope is a risk that must be run.


— Georges Bernanos


#must #risk #run

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


— Georges Bernanos


#brave man #dread #face #fear #man

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


— Georges Bernanos


#anything #does #duties #longer #modern

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!


— Georges Bernanos


#does #given #haven #lies #lull

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


— Georges Bernanos


#becomes #condemn #condemns #part #sin

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.


— Georges Bernanos


#hell #longer #love #madam #to love

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


— Georges Bernanos


#fine #fine thing #must #order #pride

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.


— Georges Bernanos


#does #much #nothing #proceed #result

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.


— Georges Bernanos


#discovers #ever #his #loneliness #own






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Did you know about Georges Bernanos?

From exile he mocked the 'ridiculous' Vichy regime and became a strong supporter of the nationalist Free French Forces led by the conservative Charles de Gaulle. He emigrated to South America in 1938 and stayed there until 1945 for most of the time in Barbacena Brazil where he tried his hand at managing a farm. He served in the First World War as a soldier where he witnessed the battles of the Somme and Verdun.

Georges Bernanos ([bɛʁnanos]; 20 February 1888 – 5 July 1948) was a French author and a soldier in World War I.

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