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Georges Bernanos was a famous Author from France, who lived between February 20, 1888 and July 5, 1948.
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He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Georges.
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Famous quotes by Georges Bernanos (17)
"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it"
"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!"
"Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward"
"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us"
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more"
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means"
"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"
"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness"
"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air"
"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so"
"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man"
"Hope is a risk that must be run"
"Hell, madam, is to love no longer"
"Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it"
"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses"
"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"
"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread"
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